• Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.

  • Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)

  • The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.

I saw what WhatsApp did to forbid modification of it’s app which works in stopping a lot of distributions, why doesn’t Signal do the same?

  • EngineerGamingEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    At least until the official client allows registration from desktop without VM shenanigans, and allows an arbitrary SOCKS proxy instead of just their own, and doesn’t depend on Google services on mobile, there NEED to be third-party clients like signal-cli or Molly.